RandoHolmes

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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
Of course it's not good, it's magic disguised as science. It's theoretically possible, but we're nowhere near the level of tech to be able to pull it off. It's basically a money grab.
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
I've literally had people ask me these types of questions while on the phone. And I "fail" on purpose because I won't attempt them. That's the point. The fact that the internet exists and the interviewer could hav
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
Nothing glorious :) It was a VPS automated deployment system that could deploy both windows and linux to various datacenters around the world while also installing some 50+ pieces of software (as configured).
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
Thank you for making my point. What I said was that "movement" was a building block of life and your response was "no, cause if you do polka-STYLE movement while trying to lay bricks, you'll FAIL". Right, but what t
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
I've updated my initial post with a clarification since you're not the only one who came away with the impression this was an hour long presentation. But also, I really really dislike when others talk about "optimizing"
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
You act as if it's on the person interviewing to set something like that up...
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
My interpretation was similar, but slightly different. The company itself wasn't actually solving complex problems and therefore the developers involved couldn't actually understand the level of complexity I was able to deal with.
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
> Unless the job is mostly giving presentations, it seems like its optimizing for the wrong thing. Technically speaking, if we're in an interview to "optimize for the right thing", then we would just have them come in and
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
Perhaps presentation is the wrong word, lets say "talk" instead. Not even a requirement to have anything graphical, just a long form discussion followed by Q&A afterwards.
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
> Saying that these questions are forbidden just because you are sometimes tired of doing them strikes me as unreasonable. You know what's unreasonable? Interviewing a bricklayer and asking them to describe how they lay bricks over
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
That's because of the way modern CPU's are optimized. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQs6IC-vgmo
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
> Why do we focus so much on data structures and algorithms? 1. Those are the building blocks of software, and 2. They don't stop being useful when you move from domain A to domain B
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
> The duds were people who for one reason or other did not want to do what was assigned, yet took some time to say so. Personal issues for sure. If there's one thing I don't want to do, it's work by assignment. I'm n
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
I once did an interview where I described some software I had designed and built that was deployed around the world. At the end of it the biggest burning question they had was "where are the unit tests". I was like ... you see th
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
I once had someone ask me a question like this on the phone and I failed. Do you know why? Because they disqualified themselves from hiring me. What I remember from that phone screen was getting mentally _TIRED_, sighing, and then lying ab
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
Give the person 3-5 presentation topics they can choose from and have them come in and present to your company (non-technical & technical). Afterwards hold a Q&A where the technical and non-technical identify themselves as such and
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
I actually miss this in C# and wish the .net community had gone in with bytecode rewriting the way the Java community did.
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
morning and after lunch. Sometimes if I have downtime at the end of the day and don't want to start something else up then at the end of the day as well.
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
The idea is to endeavor to be right, rather than purposefully cutting corners.
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
That's not a Python specific problem, but otherwise I agree with your point.
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
The golden rule of estimation is to give a 1-10 confidence level and if your confidence level is below a threshold (7-8 for example) then also define the risks. Finally, use that analysis to give a reasonable upper and lower bound (or be h
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
Judging who the slacker is by estimates is wrong, period. There's a habit of technical folks to come to conclusions they shouldn't, and this is a perfect example. It generally manifests itself in interviews where the technical in
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
Watch as my eyeballs roll out of my head, onto the floor, and out the door. Oh also... -- I have deleted a long comment I was going to reply with as I'm sure you are not open to hearing actual counter arguments. I don't want to wa
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
That's a terrible metric to use. Wikileaks would time their release of information for political effect.
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
yep, that's exactly what I do when I really end up having to use a header-only lib that uses templates. It's not that I'll outright refuse to use a header-only lib, only that I very very strongly prefer not using them.
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
fair enough.
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
> I don't see anything objectively more or less dangerous about operating a radio in this way In my current vehicle I can change stations without taking my eyes off the road, I don't feel as if I'd be able to do that if it
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
yeah, if it were passive only, I'd 100% be ok with it. Being able to slap the map up on the larger screen is a definite win. I just don't want to be interacting with it in a touch screen way while driving.
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
You have no argument here. the average loan for a new vehicle is 3-5 years. Is it your belief that you're likely to default on that loan, therefore why would you learn the system in your vehicle? The average ownership length for a car
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
I think what's a testament is that everything you say is true and they'll do it while maintaining backwards compatibility with code written 35 years ago.

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